Chapter 274: Yuan Li
Canned food, fruits, cured meats...... The fighters brought over ready-made food from the Japanese camp.
They frantically pounced on the food like hungry tigers and sheep, and began to gobble up without saying a word.
"Alas, these people are hungry, I don't know if I haven't eaten a full meal in a long time." He shook his head and couldn't bear to look at it.
The men were expressionless, their eyes numb and empty, like soulless bodies, and they only exercised some instinctive reactions.
It wasn't until the soldiers repeated over and over again that we were an expeditionary force and that you were saved, that the eyes of these people slowly regained some brilliance.
A few scruffy and thin soldiers even hugged each other and wept bitterly, as if to vent the emotions that had been accumulated in their hearts for a long time.
The soldiers of the Third Division silently looked at these compatriots in front of them, and their hearts were slightly sour.
They are all the same identity as themselves, but they are tormented here, and they are tortured by little devils to the point that they are not human, which is unimaginable to ordinary people.
"The senza is coming!"
As soon as everyone turned around, they saw Liao Mingyu walking towards here with a meteor in stride.
"So many people? Damn it! Seeing the tragic situation here, Liao Mingyu was so angry that he couldn't help but scold loudly.
Hundreds of prisoners of war were gathered in this small concentration camp, and the darkness of life left them with no hope, so much so that most of them are now in a state of bewilderment.
"Long article, count the number of people, ask the medical company to come over and check their bodies one by one, and then take them down to rest and recuperate."
Liao Mingyu immediately gave an order, no matter what the identity of these people is, he will not let it go.
"Understood!"
Just as Long Wenwen was about to arrange things, a young man in his twenties suddenly walked out of the crowd.
"Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my soldiers, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you!"
The young man stood up straight and saluted Liao Mingyu and the others with a military salute, although his face was like a vegetable, his eyes were very bright, and a lieutenant colonel's collar badge was faintly visible on his shabby neckline.
This young officer was obviously different from the other people's confusion, and he was polite in his conversation, not arrogant or humble, and it was obvious that he should have some status in the original unit.
"You're their commander? Tell me a little bit about it. Liao Mingyu returned the salute and asked curiously.
"Yes! Sir. My name is Yuan Li, the former lieutenant colonel and battalion commander of the 1152nd Regiment of the 200th Division, most of the soldiers here are soldiers of the 200th Division, and there are some local people......"
Yuan Li, a young officer, slowly told Liao Mingyu what happened to them.
It turned out that this concentration camp was basically occupied by soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who were defeated and captured during the first battle in Burma.
Yuan Li's unit was the first mechanized unit of the national government, the famous 200th Division in China.
The 200th Division, as the main force of the expeditionary force, was one of the first Chinese troops to enter Burma in March '42.
They became famous in the battle of Tonggu defense, and still resisted stubbornly under the situation of the enemy's heavy encirclement and no reinforcements, and finally annihilated more than 5,000 enemies, playing the prestige of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
General Dai even announced before the war: "If the division commander dies in battle, he will be replaced by the deputy division commander; The deputy division commander died in battle and was replaced by the chief of staff; The chief of staff died in battle and was replaced by the commander of the infantry, and the same was done at all levels. ”
However, due to the fact that the British army on the Western Front never took active action to cooperate, and the British side delayed, the follow-up troops of the expeditionary force could not be transported to the Tonggu front line as planned.
Although the results were brilliant, the 200th Division also paid a huge price, and the whole division fought hard for 12 days, suffering more than 2,000 casualties. In addition, there was a shortage of food and ammunition inside, and there were no reinforcements outside, so in the face of an enemy who was 4 times larger than himself after reinforcements, he was trapped in a lonely city, and the situation was critical, and he finally had to choose to break through.
Later, according to the instructions of Shangfeng, they moved to Taunggyi, Rahon and other places to cover the retreat of the 5th Army and the 6th Army to the country, and finally when they crossed the Savage Mountain, they were ambushed by the Japanese 56th Division, and the troops were scattered, General Dai was also seriously wounded and finally died, and the entire 200th Division withdrew to the country with less than 3,000 people.
Yuan Li's 1152nd Regiment's 9th Tank Battalion was damaged by 18 Soviet-made T26 light tanks due to repeated battles and retreats, and the rest had to be discarded.
However, when they reached the border town of Wanmachi, they were intercepted by the Japanese army, and Yuan Li immediately led his troops to stop the enemy, but he was surrounded by the Japanese army because he was outnumbered, and finally he himself was captured due to his wounds.
Of the 100,000 expeditionary forces that went out to Burma for the first time, only 40,000 were able to return home safely, tens of thousands of people died in a foreign land, and countless soldiers were captured by the enemy.
Later, the Japanese occupied a large area west of the Nu River, and thousands of prisoners of war were sent to Burma or Malaysia.
If it was just an ordinary prisoner of war camp, it would be easy to say, but does the Japanese need to talk more about their morality?
The reason why the little devils don't kill them is nothing more than to keep them for great use, and the Singapore-based Gangzi 9420 unit needs a large number of live test materials for the research of new biological and chemical weapons, and these prisoners of war are the best candidates.
Because Longling also has a biochemical research institute set up by Gangzi 9420 troops, more than 2,000 prisoners of war, including Yuan Li, were also escorted here.
In addition to prisoners of war and little devils, many people were arrested in the local area to undergo inhumane bacteriological experiments.
These unconscionable beasts experimented with plague, typhoid fever, anthrax, tuberculosis, syphilis, and other experiments in order to develop more effective biological and chemical weapons.
The concentration camp originally held thousands of Chinese people, but only a few hundred people have survived so far, and all the others have been brutally tortured and killed by the little devils in various biochemical experiments.
Liao Mingyu sighed lightly, and he felt a little empathy when he heard Yuan Li's experience, in fact, he took the Sichuan Army to the same as these people, struggling desperately in the torrent of defeat, just to be able to go home.
If it weren't for the system and its own foresight, it is estimated that it would have become a pile of dry bones in the primeval jungle, buried forever in a foreign land.
"Turtle son's little Japan, Lao Tzu will go and chop those captives alive now!!"
"Wang Ba cover drop, count me in!"
The upright character wants to be numb and not spicy when he hears this, and he is going to find those captured little devils to vent his anger.
Liao Mingyu pouted, now that he thinks about it, it's a bit cheap to cut off his head directly, that little devil, it is time for them to have a good taste of what real cruelty is.
"Those brutes have already been chopped up by Chen Jize, you can see them now when you go to the west road."
"Huh?"
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